October’s Adventures

What a fabulous Thursday! Happy November everyone🍂 November always brings in more family time, especially as we inch closer to the holidays. With Gemma's age, I really can't contain how excited I am for our traditions this year. She's now able to comprehend aspects that didn't even phase her just months ago. This girl gets …

California Beachin

YAASS! Happy Thursday Everyone! Our California adventure was definitely one for the books. Gem and I decided to go visit my parents in Huntington Beach, California to get out of our desert's "dry" heat and soak up some waves. Enter Gemma's first plane ride - and she did SO WELL... for a bit. I was …

Happy Birthday

My little darling is turning one this coming Saturday and my heart is filled with complex emotions of joy, pure awe, and amazement. I cannot believe we will have a ONE year old in just days. Everyone that is close to TJ and I knew we were not in the total "parent" mind frame, and …

Real Talk.

This week I was diagnosed with Postpartum Depression. Fun Facts: This shit sucks and it comes out of nowhere 3 million+ cases in the US per year PPD can occur in all parents, not just birth mothers. Symptoms may be overwhelming such as feeling hopeless, agitated, sad, anxious, moody, losing interest in activities, oversleeping, unable …

Q & A?!

It's a MANIC Monday over here! Laundry, everywhere! But I decided on venturing out and doing a questions & answers blog for my usual Thursday posts! This week for my readers, send me any questions in the email link (or through any of my social media links below) in relation to life, mama-hood, birth, marriage, …

Day in the Life: Nine Months

Nine months. Don't worry, I'll be in the corner crying - please just carry on about your day. I'm trying to soak in every possible moment in with our girl, they say the time goes by too fast, and man, that shit's true. Our days are anything but dull here in our Gibbs casa, and …

FAV Baby Items

Happy Thursday, all! I wanted to share with you some of my most used, CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT (dramatic, I know), most favorite baby items that we have for Gemma. (They all make great baby shower gifts too!) 1. Multi-use Nursing Cover. This was a must have for me. I knew I wanted to nurse while I …

WOOPS! Lifestyle Shoot.

Gemma and I had a mini photo shoot - just enjoying my latte and having some treats. Here are some of my absolute FAVS! Woops! Bakeshop, is adorably quaint! It felt as if I was back in Paris... a whole 8 years ago (lol)... the decor and set up was perfectly simplistic and intimate. Woops …

Road trips & Misadventures

...From hell... Wait, what?! YOU GUYS... Please, smack me on the head if I ever even mention on going on another road trip with a baby/toddler. Let me just tell you about our first family vacay... So my parents had planned a mini vacation getaway in Las Vegas for the Pac12 tournament, which we had …

First Babies Before the Baby… #DogMom

Ohhh my babies!!! I feel like I don't post nearly as much of our fur babies anymore! Mostly because everything is about Gemma now, but I can't forget about our first borns! God knows they're right by my side every day. Just some memories we've made along the way... of them escaping from our prison …